Best Demarco Poems

The suicidal King and the one eyed Jack
Were perusing the bar for a late evening snack
"How's her?" asked the Jack.
"Too thin," said the King.
"I like...

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I was running up the mountain, 
Just dog tired,
Suffering,
My mind drifting 
Between the Infinite Rift.
My Aumakua (spirit animal) stops on a branch nearby.
He starts to...

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We hardly remember the truth
Victims of the Great Forgetting
We hardly recognize that history is popular culture
A screenplay of the past written by the victor

Just look...

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Twas the day before Summer Break
And all through the school
Not a single kid was studying
or following one single rule
The books were all stacked in the...

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We all hear the internal clock ticking,
A self-contained Doomsday device,
Melting like a candle in the desert heat

Shaded by our consciousness,
We try to ignore the Fun...

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Black Pearls

and Broken ocean shells

Cannot stop my love for you



We are shipwrecked

on a jagged reef

A pirate's treasure of booty

with nothing to spend it on



The curse...

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Beyond the invincible Death,
Past the infectious Icons,
The ever-winding spatial staircase,
And the crack between Time and Space,
Lies the unconscious mind, the ethereal plane, and the land...

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I climbed to the top of the clock tower,
With the wind lightly at my back.
I positioned myself ever so slightly, 
And got ready to attack.
I...

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Confessions of a Swirly Straw

The Swirly Straw said to the Clear Cola 
“I don’t mean to pry 
but I’m tired of getting double teamed 
Like...

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Confessions of Pistachio Pudding

The pudding said to the whipped cream 
"I love the way you feel on top of me... 
all light and sugary...but I...

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"**** without sound
Is not nearly as good," 
The girl with the scorpion tattoo 
Turns and says to me.
"Duh," I comment.
"It's as if a part of...

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Frightful courage 
heavenly bad 
pessimistic optimism 
happily sad 
Zen monk buddist priest 
philosophic religion 
pleasantly painful 
colorless prism 
Green colored stop sign 
Oxymoron's twin 
ageless...

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We are being taught what is not important
"Follow your Hear- a... your money or time is money."
We are being taught an illusion
Disconnected from the land...

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Hydrants open; the waters gush and flood
the burning road. The children cheer and run
in suits, to feel the flowing cold. While mom
and pop stand side...

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The scene is all too familiar
(Except for the purple sky),
Has this happened before?
Deja vu on the edge of a waking dream?
In another life,
Or maybe all...

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